Manifolding assembly



Aug. 24, 1943. J. G. KERR 2,327,719

MANIFOLDING ASSEMBLY Original Filed March '7, 1941 Patented Aug. 24, 1943 MANIFOLDING ASSEMBLY James Gordon Kerr, Washington, D. 0., assignor to Gilman Fanfold CorporatiomNiagara Falls, N. Y., a corporation of Delaware Original application March 7.1941, Serial No. 382,120. Divided and this application June 2,

1942, Serial No. 446,997

5 Claims. (Cl. 282-415) This invention relates to improvements in manifolding assemblies andmore particularly to improvements in assemblies of long continuous record and transfer strips that may be either of the fanfold type or the type wherein separate individual record strips are employed.

It is a general object of the invention to provide a manifolding assembly of the class mentioned, wherein an improved arrangement is provided whereby the assembly strips including the transfer stripscan be separated from each other when in a typewriter or similar inscribing machine so that erasures and corrections can be quickly and easily made. i A further object is to provide in amanifolding assembly of the class mentioned an improved arrangement and construction of the interleaved record and transfer stripswhereby a set of form lengths or from sheets, after inscription thereof can be quickly and easily severed from the complete assembly and the record and carbon sheets stripped or separated from interleaved relation with each other.

Other objects of the invention will be in part pointed out in the following detailed disclosure of an illustrative but preferred embodiment of the invention, and will be in part obvious as the disclosure proceeds.

The invention accordingly comprises an article of manufacture possessing the features, properties, and the relation of elements which will be exemplified in the article hereinafter described and the scope of the application of which will be indicated in the claims.

Fora more comprehensive disclosure of the nature, objects and advantages of the invention, reference is had to the following detailed disclosure of the illustrative embodiment and to the accompanyin drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a manifolding assembly of the fanfold type embodying the invention, parts being broken away so as to disclose the structure more clearly. Y

Fig. 2 is an enlarged partially diagrammatic transverse vertical section through the manifolding assembly of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 3 is an enlarged partially diagrammatic perspective view of a section of the improved manifolding assembly.

This invention is fully disclosed in applicants prior application, Serial No. 382,120, for Carbon interleaved stationery, filed on or about March 7, 1941, Patent No. 2,300,257, issued October 27, 1942. The present application, therefore, is division of the prior application. 1

Referring to the drawingfor a detailed description of the illustrative embodiment'there shown; a manifolding assembly I of the fanfold type has a plurality .of relatively superposed long continuous record strips with long continuous carbon or transfer strips interleaved therewith in transfer relation. However; it is often advantageous to employ separate, individual record strips. The strips are shown abnormally separated in diagrammatic fashion in orderto disclose the arrangementmore clearly. In theassembly shown there are three such record strips, an original record strip 2, a duplicates, and a triplicate 4, carbon and transfer strips 5 being interleaved in transfer relation so as to; transfer to the duplicateand triplicate record stripsin scription made upon the original record strip. It will be understood that the assembly may have two or three or more record strips withthe appropriate number of transfer strips. Each of the record strips is peferably provided with blank v forms 6 arranged in a longitudinal series thereon, and the blank forms of the superposed strips are insuperposed relation withea'ch other in the as-- sembly, thus forming sets'of superposed leaves or'form sheets. Thuse'ach record strip has a series of form lengths or form sheets, each having one of the blank forms 6, and'the record strips are provided with longitudinally spaced transverse weakened severance lines I positioned between the adjacentformcsheets and providing for severance of the form sheets along these lines from the complete assembly. The transfer strips 5 may also be provided with similar transverse weakened severance lines 8. These weakened severance lines may be made in any well known manner as by perforating,scoring, slitting and the like. The assembly I may be reversely folded along transverse fold lines preferably coinciding with the weakened severance lines 1 and 8, thus forming a zigzagfolded supply pack 9 having a large number of sets of record and transfer leaves. 1

' As mentioned, themanifolding assembly may be of theseparate strip type, or of the fanfold type wherein the superposed record strips 2, 3 and l are formed of a single integral sheet of paper H3 or like material folded along longitudinal lines [0. In the fanfold" form shown a longitudinal weakened severance line H extends alongone marginal portion of each of the record strips, being continued throughout the length of each strip; thus forming longitudinal marginal binding margins orstubs l 2. Eachtransfer strip 5 is bound or attachedto one of these stubs l2 by any well known binding means such, for example, as the adhesive attachment 53 shown diagrammatically in Figs. 2 and 3. At the opposite longitudinal margin of the assembly from the binding attachments is, the longitudinal edge portions of the transfer strips 5 are inset from the adjacent longitudinal edges of the record strips, thus providing marginal selective grips whereby the record sheets can be gripped to the exclusion of the transfer sheets to facilitate separation of the transfer sheets from the record sheets of an inscribed set of sheets. The transfer sheets can be quickly and easily stripped or separated from the record sheets by gripping the marginal portions l2 and simultaneously gripping the opposite selective grips and exerting a quick jerk or pull whereupon the record sheets are torn from the binding along the weakened severance ward ends of the sheets are thus turned back or separated the erasures can be easily made on the underlying record sheets.

The record strips are provided with elongated slits i5 corresponding to the slits M of the carbon strips and similarly positioned, the slits i5 being positioned in alignment with the severance lines H and coinciding therewith. Also short integral sections or ties [5' are preferably provided at one or both sides of each severance line I. The ties i4 and i5 hold the edges of the paper in place after severance along the lines i and 8, but are easily severed when desired. The slits may be omitted but it is convenient to construct the assembly with both the slits I4 and I5 because these slits can be simultaneously made after the "record and transfer strips have been assembled lines I I while the transfer sheets remain attached U to the binding, thus causing the record and transfer sheets to be separated.

In manitolding assemblies of this typeitioften becomes desirable to make erasures and corrections on the underlying record-sheets when the assembly is in writing position in a typewriting or similar inscribing machine. ,He'retofore, it has been difiicult to make such erasures wit-h theassen bly inqthe machine and it"has: been found necessary to remove-the assembly from the machine for the purpose of making theerasures and corrections. -However, in this improved assembly such era-sures and corrections can be easily made while the assembly is still in position in thewritmachine: V I r 1 In order to accomplish this a vantageous result'the'transfer strips 5 are formed with elongated lines of separation or slits, such-as indicatedat l d in Fig. 3; i'lhese elongated slits M preferably extend-entirely through the transfer strips. As s own; th elongated slits .44 are substantially'in dcpthwise alignment in the assembly: with the longitudinal weakened severance lines 1] or the record strips, and; as th y are preferably positioned at each of hcend sections of each transfer sheetiof each sheet set. These slits M are positioned at longitudinally spaced mtervals-throughont the length of each transfier strip '5 and, as shown, they are preferably positioned with their ends adiacent to transverse weakened severance lines 8, butshort integral sections or'ztiesM are preferably'prm vided'zat one .or both sides of eachseverance line 8;] These slits it may iextend'inwardlyrin each transfer sheet to any desired extent but their adjacent ends'do not meet, thus leaving. 'a .considerable mtegral length of each transfer sheet of its original strength so that the transfer sheets remain attached to the bindingtby the adhesive attachments 13. Although the elongated slits :M are shown as being positioned ateach of the' op p'o'site ends of each transverse sheet, they. may in some cases be omitted 'fromthe bottoms or rear ends of the sheets. c

When the manitolding assembly is inserted overthe platenxof a typewriting machine and it is desired" to .make erasures .on theunderlyin record sheets .of the assembly, this can be easily doneib-y separating the forward ends of the assemblysheets; 'Iihus the-original record sheet [or strip. :2 can be separated from the underlying sheets by severing the forward pi-iarts of the longitudinal. severance lines ,and theunderlying for-Ward endsiofftjhe carbon sheets can then be separated from the underlying record. sheets by virtue of the elongated slits: 16, When the for iii their normal operative position. Also, the slits i5 provide for easier separation of the record sheets from the binding i2 during the sheet stripping operation because of the .shortened attachmentsof :the; weakened; lines ,4 t. a

cid d ad n a e W e c eare arlarce mimrelation, attaching means providing a :bindtng for said leaves, weakened severance lines inthe respective record leaves extendingalong theas sembly adjacent to said binding and providing forseveranceof the recordleaves from thebi'nd,

ing, at least one of said recordleaf. weakened lines including an elo-ngated slit positioned at a marginal part of the es'sembly' and weakening the: leafto a greater extent than the weakening of said weakened severance line beyond the elongated slit, a transfer leaf of the assembly having an elongated sl-it adjacent to and extending along said' reco rd leaf slit-but the'major pa-rt of said transfer leaf being fifee of weakening along said binding-so- -as tofrema-in permanently attached thereto when the record leaves are severed along the weakened severance lines thereof; said slits of the record and transfer leaves extending inwardly a substantial distance along the marginal. end portionof theassembly and providing for the easy separation of said marginal portions of the record and transfer leaves from said bindingand-providing also for the turning backv d y h o to ch n pa ts of an n erlyi assembly record leaf so as to provide'for making erasures or corrections o fj t'h' inscriptions frnade thereon. fl-

I 2. In a manifolding assembl f n .cemhination. long continuous record and transfer strips superposed in transfer relation and having longitudi nally spaced transverse weakened severance lines providing for severance of the assembly into leaves or form lengths rand forming leaf setsof record and transfer leaves, attaching means attaching the. record end transfer strips .together along a lon-gitu ma; marginalportioniof the assembly a fcr mnsjs lo gi udina bindin for the strips l-ongitudinal weakened severance lines in the respective recordstrips'substantially coterminous with theassembly-and extending over marginal end po'rtionsiof the respective-rec'- ord' leaves adjacent to the said transverse weakened severance lines, said longitudinal severance lines extending along the assembly adjacent to said longitudinal binding and providing for sevattaching strip section for the transfer strip at each leaf set for permanently attaching each transfer leaf to said binding, said elongated sections of transfer strip weakening extending a substantial distance along marginal end portions of the respective leaf sets and being positioned M respectively adjacent to said transverse weakened severance lines of the rcord strips and adjacent and substantially parallel to the longitudinal weakened severance lines thereof, whereby marginal end portions of overlying record and transfer leaves may be readily separated from the binding and turned backwardly when in a writing machine toexpose an underlying record leaf for the purpose of making erasures or corrections of the inscriptions made thereon.

3. In a manifolding assembly, in combination, long continuous record and transfer strips superposed in transfer relation and having longitudinally spaced transverse weakened severance lines providing for severance of the assembly into leaves or form lengths and forming leaf sets of record and transfer leaves, attaching means attaching the record and transfer strips together along a longitudinal marginal portion of the assembly and. forming a longitudinal binding for the strips, longitudinal weakened severance lines in the respective record strips substantially coterminous with the assembly and extending over marginal end portions of the respective record leaves adjacent to the said transverse weakened severance lines, said longitudinal severance lines extending along the assembly adjacent to said longitudinal binding and providing for severance of the record leaves of each said set from the binding, said longitudinal weakened lines having elongated sections positioned at marginal end portions of the respective leaves weakened to a greater extent than intermediateparts thereof,

said transfer strip or strips having elongated longitudinal lines of separation including elongated sections of strip weakening positioned only at respective marginal end portions of the said transfer leaves and extending along and adjacent to said binding and providing for partial separation of the respective transfer leaves from the binding, said longitudinal weakened lines of the record strips and said elongated sections of weakening of the transfer strips being interrupted adjacet to the respective transverse severance lines to provide short integral attaching strip sections adjacent to the respective leaf edges, said elongated sections of transfer strip weakening being longitudinally spaced apart so as to leave an elongated integral attaching strip section for the transfer strip at each leaf set for permanently attaching? eachtransferleaf .to saidbinding, said elongated sections of transfer Lstrip" weakening extending a substantial distance along marginal end portions of the're'spe'ctive leaf :sets and .being positioned respectively adjacent to said transverse weakenedseverance lines of the record strips and adjacent and substantially parallel :to the said elongated-sections of greater weakness -of the longitudinal 'weak'enedseverance lines thereof, whereby marginal endportions of over- 'lying record and transfer leaves may be readily separated from. the binding and turned backwardly when in a writing machine to expose an underlying record leaf for the purpose of making erasures or corrections of the inscriptions made thereon.

4, In a manifolding assembly, in combination, long continuous record and transfer strips superposed in transfer relation and having longitudinally spaced transverse weakened severance lines providing for severance of the assembly into leaves or form lengths and forming leaf sets of record and transfer leaves, attaching means attaching the record and transfer strips together along a longitudinal marginal portion of the assembly and forming a longitudinal binding for the strips, longitudinal weakenedseverance lines in the respective record strips substantially coterminous with the assembly and extending over marginal end portions of the respective record leaves adjacent to the said transverse weakened severance lines, said longitudinal severance lines extending along the assembly adjacent to said longitudinal binding and providing for severance of the record leaves of each said set from the binding, said longitudinal weakened lines having elongated slits extending through the strips and positioned at marginal end portions of the respective record leaves, said transfer strip or strips having elongated longitudinal slits extending therethrough and positioned only at respective marginal end portions of the said transfer leaves and extending along and adjacent to said binding and providing for partial separation of the respective transfer leaves from the binding, said elongated transfer strip slits being longitudinally spaced apart so as to leave an elongated integral attaching strip section for the transfer strip at each leaf set for permanently attaching each transfer leaf to said binding, said elongated slits of the transfer strip extending a substantial distance along marginal end portions of the respective leaf sets and being positioned respectively adjacent to said transverse weakened severance lines of the record strips and adjacent and substantially parallel to the said elongated slits thereof, whereby marginal end portions 'of overlying record and transfer leaves may be readily separated from the binding and turned backwardly when in a writing machine to expose an underlying record leaf for the purpose of making erasures or corrections of the inscriptions made thereon.

5. In a manifolding assembly, in combination,

record and transfer leaves interleaved in transfer relation, attaching means providing a binding for said leaves, weakened severance lines in the respective record leaves extending along the assembly adjacent to said binding and providing for severance of the record leave from the binding, at least one of said record leaf weakened lines including an elongated slit positioned at a marginal part of the assembly and weakening the leaf to a greater extent than the weakening of said weakened severance" linenbeyond the emugated slit; a transfer leaf of the assembly having an eiongated siitadjaceht to and extending along said record leaf slit but the. major part-of said transfer leaf beingfree of weakening alongsaid binding so as to remainypermanently attached thereto whefi the record leaves are severed along the weakened. severanoelines' thereof; said slits of the record and transfer leaves extending inward]? a substantial distance along the. marginal end portion of the assembly and. providing for the easy separation or said marginal portions of the record and tranfer leaves from said binding and providing also for the turning backwardiy thereof to expose parts of an underlying assembly record leaf so as to provide-for making erasures or corrections of the inscriptions made thereon, said slits of both the record and. transfer leaves terminating short of the sheet edges so as to provide short integral attaching leaf sections adjacent to the leaf edges,- and a selective grip-Zor- 10 mation remote from said binding. 

